Annotation:Drimen Duff
Tune properties and standard notation
DRIMIN DUFF. AKA - "Druim Fionn Dubh." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill): AABB (O'Farrell). O'Neill (1922) says: "In former times it was much more common to find a white stripe along the spine of brown or black cows, and this coloration was called "Druim-fionn", or white-black. which became "Drimmin" or "Drimen". Thus we have "Drimmin-fionn-dubh" or White-back black cow, etc. In poetical literature those titles are allegorical. "Drimmin Dhu" was a political password among the Irish Jacobites, and all "Drimmin" songs breathe a spirit of fealty to the Jacobite cause."
Source for notated version: copied from Burk Thumoth's Scotch & Irish Airs (1742) [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Farrell (National Irish Music for the Union Pipes), 1804; p. 20. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922.
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